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Sedation Practices in the PICU: An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19
Pediatric intensivists often use an “analgosedation” approach in mechanically ventilated children. By prioritizing analgesia and minimizing sedation, patients experience less delirium. However, when COVID-19 surged, our pediatric intensive care unit providers were tasked with caring for adults with...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35651739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000713 |
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author | Pumphrey, Katherine Bouzaher, Alisha Achuff, Barbara-Jo Traube, Chani |
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description | Pediatric intensivists often use an “analgosedation” approach in mechanically ventilated children. By prioritizing analgesia and minimizing sedation, patients experience less delirium. However, when COVID-19 surged, our pediatric intensive care unit providers were tasked with caring for adults with severe acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF). As documented in the literature, adults with COVID-19-AHRF received significantly higher doses of sedatives than matched cohorts with non-COVID-19 AHRF. Surprisingly, when the pediatric intensive care unit returned to caring for children, a quality review showed that we were unintentionally using far more sedatives than that prior to COVID-19. This experience is not unique to our institution, or to COVID-19. Lingering effects of crisis care can persist beyond the event itself. We seek to share our experience in order to extend the conversation regarding the unexpected effects of crises on best practices and to stress the need for high-quality research on interventions to support mental health and resilience in frontline healthcare providers. |
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spelling | pubmed-91508842022-05-31 Sedation Practices in the PICU: An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19 Pumphrey, Katherine Bouzaher, Alisha Achuff, Barbara-Jo Traube, Chani Crit Care Explor Letter to the Editor Pediatric intensivists often use an “analgosedation” approach in mechanically ventilated children. By prioritizing analgesia and minimizing sedation, patients experience less delirium. However, when COVID-19 surged, our pediatric intensive care unit providers were tasked with caring for adults with severe acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF). As documented in the literature, adults with COVID-19-AHRF received significantly higher doses of sedatives than matched cohorts with non-COVID-19 AHRF. Surprisingly, when the pediatric intensive care unit returned to caring for children, a quality review showed that we were unintentionally using far more sedatives than that prior to COVID-19. This experience is not unique to our institution, or to COVID-19. Lingering effects of crisis care can persist beyond the event itself. We seek to share our experience in order to extend the conversation regarding the unexpected effects of crises on best practices and to stress the need for high-quality research on interventions to support mental health and resilience in frontline healthcare providers. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9150884/ /pubmed/35651739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000713 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. |
spellingShingle | Letter to the Editor Pumphrey, Katherine Bouzaher, Alisha Achuff, Barbara-Jo Traube, Chani Sedation Practices in the PICU: An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19 |
title | Sedation Practices in the PICU: An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19 |
title_full | Sedation Practices in the PICU: An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Sedation Practices in the PICU: An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Sedation Practices in the PICU: An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19 |
title_short | Sedation Practices in the PICU: An Unexpected Casualty of COVID-19 |
title_sort | sedation practices in the picu: an unexpected casualty of covid-19 |
topic | Letter to the Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35651739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCE.0000000000000713 |
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